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I always thought that you weren't allowed. But maybe you are. Incidentally, this is blocked on our school computers which means it could be blocked elsewhere, including at competition sites.

EDIT: Also, not trying to be critical, but forums aren't allowed during competition, which are included in your links.

Well, I checked over the rule sheet and it doesn't say anything you can/can't have on your site. Also, it says you can't engage in chat rooms or email, but it never says anything about reading over forum posts... ^_^

spunkypurple wrote:Well, I checked over the rule sheet and it doesn't say anything you can/can't have on your site. Also, it says you can't engage in chat rooms or email, but it never says anything about reading over forum posts... ^_^

no external collaboration is permitted via email, chat rooms or other forms of collaboration computing

I would consider a forum a form of Collaboration Computing as you could post a question and get an answer fairly quickly

spunkypurple wrote:I made up a resources site on Wordpress with a copy of the rules

Standard Copyright Statement for Science Olympiad Resources:

Copyright 2010 Science Olympiad, Inc.

Science Olympiad, Inc. owns the intellectual property rights to the contents of this resource. It may not be reproduced in any form for other individuals or teams. It is meant for the sole use of the school or team that purchased it. Teams that have paid Science Olympiad National dues and are registered with Science Olympiad, Inc. may use this resource for the purposes of preparing for and participating in events that are sanctioned by Science Olympiad, Inc. This resource may not be placed on any website and no one may edit, post, republish, sell, rent or otherwise sub-license them. Use of these copyrighted materials by unregistered users is strictly forbidden.

fleet130 wrote:

spunkypurple wrote:I made up a resources site on Wordpress with a copy of the rules

Standard Copyright Statement for Science Olympiad Resources:

Copyright 2010 Science Olympiad, Inc.

Science Olympiad, Inc. owns the intellectual property rights to the contents of this resource. It may not be reproduced in any form for other individuals or teams. It is meant for the sole use of the school or team that purchased it. Teams that have paid Science Olympiad National dues and are registered with Science Olympiad, Inc. may use this resource for the purposes of preparing for and participating in events that are sanctioned by Science Olympiad, Inc. This resource may not be placed on any website and no one may edit, post, republish, sell, rent or otherwise sub-license them. Use of these copyrighted materials by unregistered users is strictly forbidden.

With a Google search, I was able to find part of last year's C rules...

http://katahdin-dev.googlecode.com/files/rules1.pdf

Ahh I didn't know my site would cause so much controversy! I didn't scan the rules or anything, I just copied them... Are they actually going to look over your shoulder to see what you are doing and/or go over your site?

Well, no, but thats like in baseball or football someone saying "Well no one is going to test my urine after EVERY game, so whats the harm in taking some steroids?" Its not worth it if you DO get caught, plus your school can get some bad reputations, plus its just wrong. Don't do it.

Haha nice analogy there, so I'm not allowed to use the rules? it doesn't exactly say that on the rulesheet, we had to go looking to find it, so I doubt the coaches will know that. i'll take off the link to the forum though, but the wiki is okay right?

spunkypurple wrote:Are they actually going to look over your shoulder to see what you are doing and/or go over your site?

At one point or another odds are they'll check what you're doing. Some classrooms even have that program that allows you to see what all the computers are doing at once, so better safe than sorry. Good analogy, robodude. About the wiki... you'll have to talk to someone who uses it more than I do. It depends what's on there I guess...

About posting rules on a website:

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Standard Copyright Statement for Elementary Science Olympiad Resources:

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Science Olympiad, Inc. owns the intellectual property rights to the contents of this resource. It may not be reproduced in any form for other individuals or teams. It is meant for the sole use of the school or team that purchased it. Teams that have paid Science Olympiad National dues and are registered with Science Olympiad, Inc. may use this resource for the purposes of preparing for and participating in events that are sanctioned by Science Olympiad, Inc. (there is no national membership fee for the Elementary Science Olympiad; the purchase of this resource enables a school to use it within the school in perpetuity as the registered user). These resources may not be placed on any website and no one may edit, post, republish, sell, rent or otherwise sub-license them. Use of these copyrighted materials by unregistered users is strictly forbidden.